February 20, 2013, 1:46PM

Ray Nagin, former Mayor of New Orleans with his lawyer Robert Jenkins, left, walk into the Federal Courthouse on Poydras Street in New Orleans to be arraigned on federal corruption charges Wednesday, February 20, 2013. (Photo by David Grunfeld, NOLA.com |The Times-Picayune)

February 20, 2013, 1:46PM

Ray Nagin, former Mayor of New Orleans with his lawyer Robert Jenkins, left, walk into the Federal Courthouse on Poydras Street in New Orleans to be arraigned on federal corruption charges Wednesday, February 20, 2013. (Photo by David Grunfeld, NOLA.com |The Times-Picayune)

February 20, 2013, 1:46PM

Ray Nagin, former Mayor of New Orleans, walks into the Federal Courthouse on Poydras Street in New Orleans to be arraigned on federal corruption charges Wednesday, February 20, 2013. (Photo by David Grunfeld, NOLA.com |The Times-Picayune)

February 20, 2013, 1:46PM

Ray Nagin, former Mayor of New Orleans, walks into the Federal Courthouse on Poydras Street in New Orleans to be arraigned on federal corruption charges Wednesday, February 20, 2013. (Photo by David Grunfeld, NOLA.com |The Times-Picayune)

January 18, 2013, 1:18PM

Rodney Williams, center, was the first witness to testify against Nagin during the former mayor's 2014 trial. He testified that he paid the mayor bribes in hope of winning lucrative contracts for his tech consulting firm. Nagin was found guilty on only one of the two counts of bribery tied to payments from Williams. Williams in September 2014 was sentenced...

January 18, 2013, 1:18PM

New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin and his sons Jarin and Jeremy (both behind the mayor) wait in line to vote at John Dibert School early Tuesday morning, November 4, 2008. "We are voting as a family today," said Nagin. His wife voted early. (Photo by Kathy Anderson, NOLA.com / the Times-Picayune)

January 18, 2013, 1:18PM

New Orleans mayor C. Ray Nagin speaks before the Martin Luther King wreath laying ceremonies at the corner of Claiborne Ave. and Martin Luther King Blvd. in New Orleans, Friday, January 15, 2010. (Photo by Ted Jackson, NOLA.com / the Times-Picayune)

January 18, 2013, 1:18PM

Mark St. Pierre, center, a technology contractor who would admit to funneling some $860,000 in bribes to Nagin's technology expert, Greg Meffert, in exchange for string of lucrative contracts, heads into court with his wife, Stacey, and center and his wife Stacey for his arraignment November 2009. St. Pierre was convicted on bribery charges at trial and sentenced to more...

January 18, 2013, 1:18PM

Ray Nagin and his sons have a countertop business called Stone Age on 9700 Plam in New Orleans, which landed the right to be the exclusive granite countertop installer for three Home Depots in the area, one in Orleans Parish. The deal does not violate ethics laws, although another new Home Depot being built in the city was getting a...

January 18, 2013, 1:18PM

"You can't imagine how proud this makes us," says Frank Fradella, chief executive of Home Solutions of America, as Mayor Ray Nagin joins him in unveiling the restored flagstone sidewalks his company installed in Pirates Alley in the French Quarter in January, 2008. (Photo by Gordon Russell, NOLA.com / the Times-Picayune)

January 18, 2013, 1:18PM

With only days to go until he leaves office May 3 after his second term in office , New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin reflected on the events of the past eight years Friday, April 23, 2010. (Photo by Susan Poag, NOLA.com / the Times-Picayune)

January 18, 2013, 1:18PM

Former New Orleans city technology chief Greg Meffert enters Federal Court in 2010. Meffert, Nagin's brash, outspoken technology chief was known for being talkative, and he eventually provided damning testimony against his former boss. His testimony got him a 2-year, 6-month sentence on charges he accepted $860,000 in kickbacks from technology contractor Mark St. Pierre in exchange for city contracts....